mobi, epub |eng | 2013-09-24 | Author:Michael Ignatieff

In September 2008, after two and a half years in power, Mr. Harper decided that his attack ads against our leader had softened up the electoral terrain sufficiently to allow ...

epub |eng | 2008-08-23 | Author:Richard J. Gwyn

That Britain might, if not actually abandon Canada, then gently but firmly pull itself back from a close embrace in order to position itself nearer to the United States, challenges ...

azw3 |eng | 2009-03-18 | Author:Richard J. Gwyn

That Britain might, if not actually abandon Canada, then gently but firmly pull itself back from a close embrace in order to position itself nearer to the United States, challenges ...

epub |eng | 2013-05-27 | Author:John Boyko [Boyko, John]

CHICAGO The American peace movement, spearheaded by the anti-Lincoln machinations of Thompson and the Copperheads, had sputtered as the Union made successful military advances in 1863, but it was revived ...

epub |eng | 2014-04-14 | Author:Alison Loat [Loat, Alison]

DESPITE THESE OCCASIONALLY positive sentiments, the former MPs expressed great antipathy for partisan melodramatics and were deeply concerned at how the public perceives politicians in Canada. “Citizens … have the ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2001-10-09 | Author:Pierre Berton [Berton, Pierre]

3 Completing the arsenal of howitzers, guns, and mortars was the deadliest weapon of all – the one that had transformed warfare. The heavy, water-cooled Vickers machine gun and the ...

mobi |eng | 2011-11-01 | Author:Pierre Berton

The Battle of Stoney Creek The American commander, Brigadier-General John Chandler, a former blacksmith, tavernkeeper and congressman, owes his appointment to political influence rather than military experience, of which he ...

azw3, epub |eng | 2010-12-22 | Author:Pierre Berton

2 The displaced people The whole country marvelled, that spring and summer of 1883, over the feat of building the railway across the prairies in just fifteen months – everybody, ...

mobi |eng | 2011-08-10 | Author:Pierre Berton

Chapter Seven The Passing of the Old Order 1 Sifton’s mysterious departure 2 The new era 3 The Indian dilemma 4 The Imperial Force 1 Sifton’s mysterious departure Nineteen hundred ...

epub |eng | 2011-06-22 | Author:Pierre Berton [Berton, Pierre]

* Though the British Columbians blamed Blake for this smear, it was actually the British Colonist that first spoke of the route through which the railway would run as “a ...

mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-07-27 | Author:Pierre Berton

Chapter Eight 1 Arthur Midleigh’s folly 2 The ice bridge 3 Annie 4 Fame and fortune or instant death 5 Aftermath 1 Arthur Midleigh’s folly In the dying days of ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2008-03-24 | Author:Mark Zuehlke [Zuehlke, Mark]

IN THE MORNING, the North Shores’ ‘A’ Company had moved right to link up with the North Nova Scotia Highlanders, only to walk straight into a German counterattack. Under a ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2003-03-24 | Author:Mark Zuehlke [Zuehlke, Mark]

While the Canadian gunners were helping the French repel the German armoured counterattack, 1 CIB Brigadier Dan Spry and a party of Royal Canadian Regiment officers crossed the river in ...

epub |eng | 2003-03-24 | Author:Mark Zuehlke [Zuehlke, Mark]

For fifteen-year-old Antonio Di Cesare, artillery was more of a danger than ever. Villa Deo, near Villa Grande, was being fired on more often by the Canadian guns. Some distance ...

epub |eng | 2011-11-04 | Author:Mark Zuehlke

A TOTAL OF 1,019 heavy bombers streamed across the French coast at 2300 hours. Canadian artillery marked the western targets with green flare shells, while the British indicated the eastern ...